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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10. 11)13.
Welcome to the Good Koads.
A report has been circulated in certain sections that the people
of those townships of the county who failed to vote bonds, and
whose route to market will lie over the good roads to be built in
those townships which voted bonds, will not be allowed to use
the good roads without paying a toll. This idea is absurd. Public
roads are public property, don't matter who built them. The
people of one county may use the roads of another county. The
people of Danbury. Meadows and Sauratown townships welcome
the citizens of Quaker Gap. Peter's Creek and other townships to
come over the good roads. That's what good roads are for to at
tract travel and trafiic. Traffic benefits a properly-built sand-clay
road. The more you use it. the better it gets. We are sure that
we voice the overwhelming intelligent sentiment when we say that
Danbury township extends an open heart and a hearty welcome to
the people of th # e other townships to use our roads when we gat
them buiit
The Boycott.
The Reporter calculated on losing a number of subscribers for its
pains in espousing the cause of good roads in the late campaign, as
here and there over the country you will find a few people who do
not accord to others the right to think differently from their views
on given questions. But we are pleased ta say that only two of our
patrons have to this date notified us to "stop the paper" because
of our efforts for good roads. On the other hand, we ha -e added
about twenty new names since the start of the campaign. This is
a big and broad country, and a free land All persons and news
papers have the constitutional privilege to think and speak their
convictions. Should the day ever arrive when the liberty of the
press, and of free speech, and of conscience, is strangled, it Will
be a sad day for the people. The Reporter has the greatest re
spect and the kindliest personal feelings for the opponents of good
roads, while we do not coincide with their views. We all love our
country. We only have different ways of expressing our love.
Summer Tourists.
The summer tourist traffic is a source of revenue extremely im
portant to the people of the mountain section of the county, turn-
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ing thousands of dollars loose among them for several months in
the year. Those who profit least from the influx of the visitors are
I the hotel-keepers, and yet the resorts are the subjects of a deep
-1 seated prejudice among a large class of people. If the resorts are
i a menace to the country tl#y should be eliminated from the busi
ness life of the community in some way- One method would be to
' pass laws forbidding that tourists should be sheltered and fed in
; the community, while the hotel-keepers are sent to jail- If the
resorts on the other hand are deemed of any value in attracting
' capital to the resources of the country, and in affording a ready
and never-failing cash market for all kinds of country produce,
then there should be less unreasonable opposition to ways and
means of inducing tourists to turn to the watering places-
Parcels Post a Groat Opportunity For The
iVicrchants.
The merchant who fails to embrace the opportunities offered
I by the parcels post, will lose one of the most powerful assistants
1 for the enlarging of his business which has come or will come within
his reach It is said that the great mail order houses of Chicago
' and New York will establish local distributing houses in all the
cities like Winston and Geensboro in order to get the advantage
;of the zone rates of postage in mailing out their merchandise.
, Our home meachants by judicious advertising on the plan of the
mail order houses can compete with them successfully. Advertis
ing if done without judgment is a loss, but if employed shrewdly
as the mail order houses employ it, brings big business and
I wealth
John Vince Marshall.
Mr -lohn Vince Marshall, of Walnut Cove, was here Monday
in the interest of the road commission of Sauratown town
. ship. Mr. Marshall opposed the bond issue, but since it has car
; ried he accepts the result with becoming grace, and will bear
; his part of the burden like a true citizen and gentleman. Mr.
Marshall is one of the best farmers of the county. He produces
practically all of his supplies at home, which is always the mark
of a successful farmer. There is one thing that no man can charge
! against John Vince Marshall, and that is dissimulation. He
I speaks his mind freely on all occasions without fear or favor. He
has always been a good friend and patron of this paper, for which
we thank him, and is one of the best citizens of this county, for
which we honor him.
A Yankee Yisit.
Dr. George Price and daughter Mrs. Mary Koch and her children
I have spent several weeks here recently in the interest of their
health. They left Monday for their home at Freeport, Pa., to the
general regret of our people. These Northerners won many
friendships while here Dr Price is a very agreeable and affable
gentleman of wealth and experience, broad in his views and
sympathies, HM 1 fall of interest for everything around him. Mrs.
Koch by her cuiiure, refinement, and vivacious disposition became
the moving spirit in the social functions of the village, and was
a favorite with the girls and the ladies. Our Yankee cousins, if
they come this way again, with their charming manners, their
refreshing accents and their generous hearts, will find a cordial
and sincere welcome.
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Maudlin Sympathy.
It is a strange thing how people will become wrought up over
minor tragedies, while paying no attention to great catastrophes.
The electrocution of the two Virg nia criminals the other day for
murdering a whole court has created almost a cataclysm in the
minds of a large percentage of our population, while nobody says
anything about the eight hundred innocent men, women and child
ren who were drowned in the Ohio valley two weeks ago. The
Titantic disaster, one of the most touching tragedies of history,
last April, is forgotten, but the maudlin sympathy for a bunch of
hillside desperadoes lives on.
What a delight to look at the waving wheat fields of Stokes
county. Everywhere the saying is that the crop is the finest for
years. It is now high enough to secrets rabbits, and is very thick
on the land- If signs fail not, we shall have bread a plenty after
July. A good wheat crop causes a mighty comfortable feeling in
the anatomy.
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